High Performance Football Pathway Lead and Teacher of PE
Laurus Ryecroft, Manchester, M43 7LJ14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2027
Closing date
5 October 2026 at 9am
Date listed
10 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS: £32,916 - £51,048 + TLR2a - £3,527
High Performance Football Pathway Lead and Teacher of PE job summary
Laurus Ryecroft is seeking to appoint an outstanding and enthusiastic Teacher of PE to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented teacher who is passionate about inspiring young people through sport and physical education, whilst also leading our highly successful Academic Football Pathway (AFP).
This role combines high-quality classroom teaching with the opportunity to lead a specialist football programme in partnership with Manchester City, supporting students to excel both academically and athletically.
Important Information: The Teacher of PE position is a permanent role. The Academic Football Pathway Lead responsibility, paid through a TLR2a, is a temporary appointment, until 31/08/2030, and will be reviewed in line with needs of the programme.
For further details on the role, including key skills and experience required, please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached below.
To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. The Laurus Trust recognises the importance of employees' work/life balance. A better work-life balance can increase staff motivation, reduce employee stress, improve performance and productivity and make employment more accessible for more people. Where it is possible and practical, we will accommodate flexible arrangements from day 1, which may involve job sharing, part-time working, bespoke timetabling or a nine-day fortnight.
If you would like to join our Laurus family in a rewarding role that changes the lives of our students by empowering them to become the best that they can be then we would love to hear from you.
To complete an application form please click ‘Fast Apply’. A full application must be submitted as CV’s will unfortunately not be accepted in line with our safer recruitment process.
We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.
Disability Confident Employer
We value diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are an inclusive employer and welcome all applications. Disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview. If you require any reasonable adjustments for an interview, please highlight this to our Recruitment Team in advance.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Laurus Ryecroft
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1153 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Laurus Ryecroft website
Laurus Ryecroft is an oversubscribed secondary school for 11 to 18-year-old students in Tameside. The school is run by the Laurus Trust and replicates the outstanding education offered by the Trust’s founder school, Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS), based in Stockport. CHHS is a hugely oversubscribed school and has been named as one of the UK’s top-performing schools in The Sunday Times, ranking as the 15th non-denominational comprehensive school in Manchester and the North West in the annual Parent Power Survey for 2022.
Laurus Ryecroft is a non-selective, non-denominational free school. It opened in September 2018, initially providing 150 Year 7 places in five forms with 30 students in each. A further seven Year 7 forms will be added each academic year until the school is at full capacity. In addition to this the school will have a sixth form of 300 students.
Laurus Ryecroft is a vibrant, warm and exciting place to work and learn in. We are proud to be ‘Unashamedly Academic’ and have the highest aspirations for all of our students. Our Cornerstones – Academic Aspiration; Culture Creativity and Rhetoric; Leadership and Service; Competition and Physical Endeavour – detail how we develop and prepare our students to acquire the knowledge and develop the qualities which will open the door to the future of their choice.
We are a true learning community and value the acquisition of knowledge and believe it to be truly empowering. Our teachers are passionate about their subject and the students they teach. We pride ourselves on the quality of our learning environment and on the relationships within school. Our state-of-the-art facilities are valued and respected by all members of our school community. Laurus Ryecroft is a place of mutual respect. Our students display excellent behaviour for learning and a true thirst for knowledge.
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